Frank Zappa - Hot Rats LP - RARE 1st English Pressing Vinyl - Worldwide Shipping

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Dec 14, 2014 Sold Date

Dec 7, 2014 Start Date

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This album is Frank Zappa's superb "Hot Rats" LP on the Reprise Records label RSLP 6356.

Matrix marks A1/B1, RARE FIRST English Pressing.

Vinyl grading is Very Good+/Excellent- according to the Record Collector Grading System. It appears moderately played.

Test played superbly with fantastic audio and minor low level background noise.

The MacNeill Press gatefold sleeve is in excellent overall condition - see photos. There is an aged Record Shop label in the bottom right hand corner (The Turntable 210 King St. Hammersmith)

IN GENERAL TERMS ‘HOT RATS’ IS NOT A PARTICULARLY RARE ALBUM, IT SOLD QUITE WELL IN THE UK ON FIRST RELEASE IN OCTOBER 1969 PEAKING AT #9 IN THE UK ALBUM CHARTS AND DOING RATHER BETTER THAN IN THE USA WHERE IT ONLY MANAGED #173 ON THE BILLBOARD. SO UK ORIGINALS SURFACE FAIRLY FREQUENTLY THESE DAYS ALTHOUGH NUMBERS ARE DIMINISHING AND IT IS BECOMING HARDER TO FIND A TOP QUALITY FIRST UK VARIANT. THIS PARTICULAR ONE IS RARER THAN MOST FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS.

DURING THE FIRST PRESSING RUN FOR THIS ALBUM WARNER BROS. SEVEN ARTS RECORDS WENT THROUGH SEVERAL LABEL DESIGNS. THE FIRST WAS THIS TRI-COLOUR RIVERBOAT WHICH, ON ‘HOT RATS’, WAS SHORT LIVED BECAUSE IN 1970 IT WAS CHANGED TO THE RSLP CATALOGUED TAN LABEL AND THEN, WHEN KINNEY CORPORATION TOOK OVER, THE ‘K’ CATALOGUE PREFIXED TAN LABEL. ALL OF THIS WAS HAPPENING FROM LATE 1969 INTO 1970 WHEN THIS ALBUM WAS RELEASED SO IT APPEARED IN ALL FORMS BUT THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THIS TRI-COLOUR IS THE EARLIEST FIRST AND LITTLE DOUBT THAT OVERALL IT IS THE RAREST.